Toronto Urban Re-imaging

Urban life is being transformed as we approach the 21st Century. Mass communications and other technologies are revolutionizing the retail and financial sectors. Higher and further educations providers have become an important element of city centres concentrating large numbers of students and staff around new ways of lifelong learning. Libraries, theatres, parks, galleries and museums and other large civic space users are being challenged as never before by lack of local public funding and the new opportunities created by the Lottery and the private sector.
Leisure, entertainment, tourism, sport and the cultural industries are becoming important employers, restorers of civic pride and engines for growth in the local economy. The movement of people around and between urban areas and the impact on the environment, sustainability and the quality of life is an increasing concern. Patterns of employment are changing dramatically with flexible, casualised and contract labour replacing...